Tt: Truffle

Noun

1. a round fungus which grows underground and is regarded as a delicacy

2. Also called: (rum truffle) a sweet flavoured with chocolate or rum [French truffe]

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His only aspirations were to hold out at poker, at his club, to know the names of all the cocottes, to shake hands all round, to ply his rosy gullet with truffles and champagne, and to create uncomfortable eddies and obstructions among the constituent atoms of the American colony.







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